Well I plan on keeping the lightbox comparison page up to date, hopefully with some updates from the individual module maintainers. It's also why I have a "Last Updated" bit at the top of the comparison, so people reading it can see exactly how recent it is. I also have a date beside each module in the first overview table to show when the info on that particular module was last updated.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Stella<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Larry Garfield <<a href="mailto:larry@garfieldtech.com">larry@garfieldtech.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I agree that these comparison pages are very valuable; no question. However, one problem with them is that they are also time-sensitive. I don't expect any of the modules mentioned to stand still. That means much of the data is going to become outdated; some in a month, some in 6 months. Are we also committing to keeping these pages up to date? Out of date/wrong documentation can be just as bad if not worse than no documentation at all.<br>
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:21:54 +0100, "Stella Power" <<a href="mailto:stella@stellapower.net">stella@stellapower.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I added one to the lightbox2 module page too.<br>
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> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Richard Burford <<br>
> <a href="mailto:rich@freestylesystems.co.uk">rich@freestylesystems.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Agreed. A link from each module page to the comparison would be good a<br>
> good<br>
>> addition. I'll add one for Shadowbox now.<br>
>><br>
>> psynaptic<br>
>> <a href="http://freestylesystems.co.uk" target="_blank">http://freestylesystems.co.uk</a><br>
>> <a href="http://api.freestylesystems.co.uk" target="_blank">http://api.freestylesystems.co.uk</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 4 Jun 2008, at 02:25, Karen Stevenson wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I think a 'module comparisons' section is important enough to deserve a<br>
>>> top-level place in the handbook, with a link from the downloads page to<br>
> make<br>
>>> it easy for someone looking for modules to find. I actually think<br>
> writeups<br>
>>> like this are far more useful that the contrib module rating system<br>
> that is<br>
>>> often discussed. What does a 5 star rating tell you? It tells you the<br>
> module<br>
>>> solved a specific problem for the person who rated it, it doesn't tell<br>
> you<br>
>>> if it will solve *your* problem or be useful in *your* situation. But<br>
> this<br>
>>> kind of writeup makes it easy to see which module is the best fit for<br>
> your<br>
>>> particular situation, which is really really useful.<br>
>>><br>
>>> This should not be buried down in the module documentation -- someone<br>
>>> looking at one of the other modules would never see it. It should be<br>
> very<br>
>>> prominent (and that hopefully would also encourage other people to add<br>
> more<br>
>>> of these kinds of comparisons).<br>
>>><br>
>>> For instance a good comparison of the different wysiwyg editors would<br>
> be<br>
>>> pretty useful :)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Karen<br>
>>><br>
>>> ----- Original Message ----<br>
>>> From: FGM <<a href="mailto:fgm@osinet.fr">fgm@osinet.fr</a>><br>
>>> To: <a href="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</a><br>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 10:27:32 AM<br>
>>> Subject: Re: [development] lightbox module comparison<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've done one on the two glossary modules I'm aware of (glossary.module<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> g2.module), it's on the g2 project page. Maybe there are more, though ?<br>
>>><br>
>>> This being said, you might have something: module duplication and<br>
> module<br>
>>> voting being recurrent themes, it might make sense to formalize a rule<br>
>>> like:<br>
>>> "if you're doing a module that resembles other modules, create a<br>
>>> comparison<br>
>>> page, that will go in the <to be determined> section of the handbook",<br>
> in<br>
>>> the dev manual.<br>
>>><br>
>>> What do you think of it ?<br>
>>><br>
>>> FGM<br>
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